SMBX (2014 Yacht of Opinions): MaGL X - Whoohoo!

[Ometeotl]

Oh man a thing i did bring called "AGDQ stuff" :3

In apparently keeping with my intent to go biweekly or better (oh man), here's Secret Fluffy Laboratory Skies Zone Place. There are a lot of slopes here, it turns out. "Fun" times.

Yay, you're getting closer to mine.

Frankly I am equal parts afraid and excited.

This level was SO HARD.

Definitely looking forward to Ometeotl's level like crazy.

Come now, it wasn't THAT hard.

[Ivy]

i too look forward to ometeotl's level but i have a feeling it will be many episodes in the future

[Dragon Fogel]

i too look forward to ometeotl's level but i have a feeling it will be many episodes in the future

A whole two episodes! What a ridiculous number, who can even count that high.

[Ivy]

i too look forward to ometeotl's level but i have a feeling it will be many episodes in the future

A whole two episodes! What a ridiculous number, who can even count that high.

sorry i was thinking of maglx 2 oops

[Zygl]

Assassinate the Dudes is up now. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go disappear for about 6 years for reasons very definitely NOT related to Dreamland's River of the Damned being the next level.
(Given my past record of videogame video scheduling I should probably confirm that that is, in fact, facetious. Might not be able to pull it off in one weekend though, remembering it.)

[Ometeotl]

I am excited.

[Zygl]

GAH
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ASDF

(Honestly it went slightly better than expected!)

e: So, uh, Riverside Church in Space. The entire level is based around moving layers, all with their own timings. Thus the entire route changes if anything in the run is timed slightly differently - one bungled jump, bumping into any wall, etc. - making the optimal route extremely difficult to work out. Not only that, but the power-up/down animation stops the moving layers, but not the layers attached to NPCs, desyncing everything and adding yet another variable to account for in routing.
Basically what I'm saying is that running Riverside Church in Space is a scarier thought than Dreamland's River of the Damned.

[Alice]

GAH
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What was up with using that ninji to hurt yourself and phase through the wall? As I said in the comments, I somehow don't remember this level at all other than the boss. Was it to avoid something that would otherwise waste more time?

[Zygl]

GAH
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What was up with using that ninji to hurt yourself and phase through the wall? As I said in the comments, I somehow don't remember this level at all other than the boss. Was it to avoid something that would otherwise waste more time?

Done normally you'd go across the gap with the Gordos that I drop through and go throw some generated Parasol Waddle Dees at a resprited Birdo. After said Birdo is dead you get a key (resprited as a coin, to represent the toll for the ferry) and a bomb generator to blow up some blocks to clear a path back down to the start. Overall it wastes time on the order of minutes and is just a massive pain to deal with.

[Dragon Fogel]

You're nearing the end! I'm excited to see how these last few levels go and what sort of ridiculous tricks you still have to show us.

[Ometeotl]

Yeees, I've been waiting for this. Neat little bug with the Ninji there.

[WasabiJellyfish]

Oh dude I completely forgot how good this level would have been without really annoying background choices, like yeah I'm in hell but ease it on the eyes a bit.

But holy crap that was amazing to see. How finnicky is that warp into the wall glitch btw? It seems like that'd normally just straight up kill you, or at least push you back down into the ninji?

This is an awesome thing though keep up the good work!

[Zygl]

Hi I'm not dead. Sorry for the extended absence; standard-issue poor time management, building a computer, diving headfirst into the wonderful world of PC videogames and being afraid of the next level will do that. It's here though!
I should hopefully be getting back into a marginally consistent schedule too now that the next couple levels aren't likely to eradicate my entire being. Can't guarantee anything though, I know how bad I can be at this 'upload schedule' thing.

[raocow]

you can do it!

if you have never played this level, it's really hard to describe how the nonsense physics just wreck your everything

[Zygl]

So. It's been a while.
There's really no single explanation why it's been this long of silence honestly - mostly burnout and Real Life shenanigans with a dash of taking on more projects than I actually would want to deal with... all of which are kinda still in-progress.
I just wanted to confirm that I'm not finished with this yet though; I still believe I've come too far to just drop it, and I do genuinely want to see it through, it's just a bit of a thing to find the time and motivation to actually do it. But I have Ideas for how to deal with that - not gonna make any guarantees given my past two years of not delivering on guarantees with this (:p) but I've considered streaming the recording process as one potential option? We'll see what happens.

In the meantime though I've made my own thread so I can quit piggybacking off the old MaGL X thread here and also have an excuse to post non-MaGL X nonsense should the mood strike me, you can find that here.
I also did a non-MaGL X nonsense to give me an excuse to actually make this post, that's over here.